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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 18, 20131 min read
Musical Beds: Everyday Magic, Day 751
For four nights, I’ve been hiding out from his germs, coughing, thrashing about, and snoring by sleeping down the hall. I wake lately to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20132 min read
I Was President of the United States, and Jimmy Carter Was In My Living Room: Everyday Magic, Day 67
Then I woke up. But while I was asleep, I had an adventure of the presidential sort. It turned out that, one day after throwing my hat in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 25, 20123 min read
Six Beds in 12 Days: Everyday Magic, Day 641
The biggest bed of the lot in Washington, D.C., half-submerged underground Last night I slept on the 15th floor of a high-rise apartment,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 13, 20111 min read
Sleeping Outside: Everyday Magic, Day 410
I went out there because I didn’t want to miss sleeping outside before it gets cold although, given the summer we had, it’s still hard to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 2, 20113 min read
When Worry & Insomnia Go Riding Off Into the Sunset Together: Everyday Magic, Day 399
It wasn’t a pretty thing, my mind reeling 100 mph, a train speeding across the continent, staying on the tracks of worry and insomnia,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 13, 20111 min read
What Not To Think About When Trying to Fall Asleep: Everyday Magic, Day 266
Here’s a partial list: If it’s worth waking up early and making gluten-free pancakes from scratch. How many cars I’ve owned in my life....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 1, 20111 min read
Winter Wonderland At Work Across The Dreamtime: Everyday Magic, Day 254
The snow’s job is to fall steady and thick all night and all day. The sky’s job is to let it. Meanwhile, my job is to talk with BFA...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 28, 20111 min read
Dreaming of Tornadoes: Everyday Magic, Day 250
I lived in Kansas for more than a decade before I began dreaming of tornadoes, something I aspired to like learning to fly in my dreams...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 15, 20101 min read
Nobody Awake But Us Chickens: Everyday Magic, Between Days 149-150
Just past midnight, and here I am at my desk in my new office, soon to swoosh into Natalie’s room again when she arrives home for winter...
